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Sacred and Secular Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)

Pippa Norris

Seminal nineteenth-century thinkers predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance with the emergence of industrial society. The belief that religion was dying became the conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. The traditional secularization thesi...

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Pippa explained that the book examined how rising material security reduced the importance of religion in people's lives.

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And as increasing security came about, religion no longer seemed to be as important in people's lives, and you can see that through church attendance and religious identification. I wrote a book on th...

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Pippa explained that the book examined how rising material security reduced the importance of religion in people's lives.

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And as increasing security came about, religion no longer seemed to be as important in people's lives, and you can see that through church attendance and religious identification. I wrote a book on that, Sacred and Secular.

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